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New Yorkers took to the streets Saturday in further protests to denounce a spate of killings of unarmed black men by white police officers as relatives buried a 28-year-old father of one. Despite heavy rain, dozens of demonstrators gathered in...

Incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) lost her seat in the U.S. Senate Saturday, falling to Republican Congressman Bill Cassidy in a runoff election, according to CNN. CNN called the election for Cassidy within a half-hour of the polls closing....

The car used by a man to hit and kill a Muslim teen in Kansas City had an anti-Islam bumper sticker on the rear window, Kansas City police confirmed on Saturday. According to the Associated Press, the SUV driven by Ahmed H. Aden, 34, when he...

One-Third Of U.S. Children Live In Poverty In a new paper released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), a research center at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, researchers find that many children living in...

(Reuters) – A ceremony to decorate a scraggly Christmas tree in Reading, Pennsylvania with a single red bulb, much like Charlie Brown’s tree in the animated holiday classic, was postponed to Sunday from Saturday because of rain and...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – One of the dozens of rallies and marches in New York this week to protest police violence against minorities was organized by members of Occupy Wall Street, the driving force behind worldwide protests over economic...

(Reuters) – Three people died and 10 were sickened early on Saturday after using cocaine laced with a potent pain killer in North Carolina, police said. Investigators said the victims used powder cocaine mixed with the narcotic Fentanyl...

(Reuters) – U.S. special forces stormed a walled compound in a remote Yemeni village early on Saturday in an attempt to free Western hostages held by an al Qaeda unit, but an American journalist and a South African teacher were killed by...

Ulster County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Red Hook anesthesiologist who allegedly choked an acquaintance and forced her to swallow the ‘morning after’ pill after she alerted him that she might be pregnant, reports The Daily...

On Friday night, Los Angeles Police Department officers gunned down a man in the middle of a crowd of people along Hollywood’s famous Walk of Fame. According to Buzzfeed, at around 7 p.m. on Friday, officers responded to a report of an...

Republicans are signaling that when they take control of the Senate in January, they’ll try to change the way a key government watchdog does math. If they get their way, it will effectively put a thumb on the scale of all future...

America’s Getting Less White, and That Will Save It America reached an important milestone in 2011. That occurred when, for the first time in the history of the country, more minority babies than white babies were born in a year. Soon,...

New federal restrictions on racial profiling will still allow some officials to use the controversial practice along the southwestern U.S. border and in screening of airline passengers, the Washington Post said. The rules will ban racial...

Louisiana voters voted on Saturday in a runoff election that opinion polls indicate will expand Republicans’ majority in the U.S. Senate at the expense of one of the chamber’s last remaining southern Democrats. Republican U.S....

A US Navy civilian engineer was arrested on charges of trying to steal schematics of a new nuclear aircraft carrier and have them sent to Egypt, the Justice Department said. An undercover FBI agent posed as an Egyptian intelligence officer to...